John Armer
22Patents
15h-index
13Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 30, 1982 → Jun 22, 2006
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6768616B2 | Electrostatic discharge protection structures for high speed technologies with mixed and ultra-low voltage supplies | Electricity | 98 | Expired |
| US6909149B2 | Low voltage silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection of silicon-on-insulator technologies | Electricity | 84 | Expired |
| US6803633B2 | Electrostatic discharge protection structures having high holding current for latch-up immunity | Electricity | 58 | Expired |
| US6583972B2 | Multi-finger current ballasting ESD protection circuit and interleaved ballasting for ESD-sensitive circuits | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US7098394B2 | Method and apparatus for powering circuitry with on-chip solar cells within a common substrate | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Expired |
| US7064393B2 | Electrostatic discharge protection structures having high holding current for latch-up immunity | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6898062B2 | Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device with simultaneous and distributed self-biasing for multi-finger turn-on | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6850397B2 | Silicon controlled rectifier electrostatic discharge protection device for power supply lines with powerdown mode of operation | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US6770918B2 | Electrostatic discharge protection silicon controlled rectifier (ESD-SCR) for silicon germanium technologies | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US7589944B2 | Electrostatic discharge protection structures for high speed technologies with mixed and ultra-low voltage supplies | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US6791122B2 | Silicon controlled rectifier electrostatic discharge protection device with external on-chip triggering and compact internal dimensions for fast triggering | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US7005708B2 | Minimum-dimension, fully-silicided MOS driver and ESD protection design for optimized inter-finger coupling | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US4722066A | Digital signal overflow correction apparatus | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US4523292A | Complementary FET ripple carry binary adder circuit | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US7233467B2 | Method and apparatus for protecting a gate oxide using source/bulk pumping | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US7274047B2 | Silicon controlled rectifier electrostatic discharge protection device for power supply lines with powerdown mode of operation | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US4685079A | Ripple-borrow binary subtraction circuit | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7548401B2 | Electrostatic discharge protection structures for high speed technologies with mixed and ultra-low voltage supplies | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US4739503A | Carry/borrow propagate adder/subtractor | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7763940B2 | Device having a low-voltage trigger element | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US7414273B2 | Two-dimensional silicon controlled rectifier | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US7372681B2 | Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device with simultaneous and distributed self-biasing for multi-finger turn-on | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.